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Isolation party, Miwa Ogasawara

“And it’s even worse because Bill Cosby has the fucking smuggest old black man public persona that I hate. Pull your pants up, black people. I was on TV in the ’80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom. Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So, brings you down a couple notches. I don’t curse on stage. Well, yeah, you’re a rapist, so, I’ll take you sayin’ lots of motherfuckers on Bill Cosby: Himself if you weren’t a rapist. …I want to just at least make it weird for you to watch Cosby Show reruns. …I’ve done this bit on stage, and people don’t believe. People think I’m making it up. …That shit is upsetting. If you didn’t know about it, trust me. You leave here and google ‘Bill Cosby rape.’ It’s not funny. That shit has more results than Hannibal Buress.””

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Hannibal Buress (via cheyennecheyenne)

I…um…wow

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As the nation's 51st state, "South Florida" would address climate threats head-on

“Every time I see one of you slackjawed pickletits link me something like ‘I’m a moderate #Gamergate’r,’ or ‘#Gamergate in sixty seconds YOUTUBE CLIP,’ or ‘Here’s an anecdotal story from this one woman we found that completely negates an entire history of misogyny and abuse of woman, not just in videogaming but in the entirety of human existence so support the REAL GAMERS,’ it pisses me the fuck off because you are ruining something I enjoy. When people — everyday people who watch the coverage on CNN of Anita Sarkeesian having to cancel a speaking engagement due to death threats — think of ‘gamers,’ they are going to think of you, and that irritates me. It enrages me. I want to punch down a wall, and I like my walls. They’re nicely painted.”—An excerpt from former NFL player Chris Kluwe’s essay Why #Gamergaters Piss Me The F*** Off, available in full at Medium.

Read the whole thing. Trust me. But if you’re at work and can’t, here’s a list of some of his more brilliant turns of phrase:

• “paint-huffing shitgoblins”
• “poopsock-sniffing douchepistol”
• “hemorrhoidal gunt stains”
• “wargleblargling”
• “slopebrowed weaseldicks”

The man is a bard.

(picture by Joe Bielawa)

Previously in GamerGate

• Joss Whedon, Boston Globe Journalist Smack Down “But GamerGate Is About Journalistic Ethics!” Argument
• Anita Sarkeesian Cancels Speaking Engagement After Threats Of Campus Shooting
• Zoë Quinn Talks #GamerGate On MSNBC

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In the talk about how television has improved over the last two decades, viewers often forget to credit a slight shift in industry etiquette that made cancellation a kinder, more creative process — at least in some cases. Good manners can make good TV series, and it’s hard to think of anything more respectful than giving a showrunner one last season, even after the buzz has faded to a distant hum, to wrap his or her story up definitively and artistically. It’s a kindness that rarely involves the word “canceled.”

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This puts the goal of keeping temperature rises below 2°C to shame

When it comes to the world’s top violinist, few can rock the string instrument harder than Lindsey Stirling. Over the years, the dancing/fiddling sensation that rose to prominence following various appearances on America’s Got Talent has taken the internet by storm, crafting a wide array of extremely viral music videos. There was the ice castle-set “Crystallize”, the “Thriller”-inspired “Moon Trance,” the Elder Scrolls-influenced “Skyrim,” but in her latest attempt, “Roundtable Rival,” Stirling takes things to a whole new level, and that level is decidedly steampunk:

Stirling clearly knows when it’s time to up her game, and with “Roundtable Rival”, she definitely delivered. “Roundtable Rival” features one of the best narratives displayed in the artist’s catalog, and the fact that it takes place in a magical world where showdowns happen with guitars and violins rather than firearms makes it all the sweeter. Seriously, imagine if the modern United Stated evolved out of this wild west. All our conflicts could be settled in Battle of the Bands-style competitions. Presidential debates and congressional hearings would take on a whole other vibe as we eagerly waited for the drop halfway through the discussion of income tax code revisions.

At the moment, Stirling’s latest album, Shatter Me, is available on iTunes, Amazon and in physical form at Target. Considering this track plus many more are included on it, we highly urge you to pick it up and rock out to the violin excellence contained within.

What do you think of Lindsey Stirling’s latest? Let us know in the comments below.

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The Sun has been fidgety recently. This morning, NASA announced that it had spat out its second substantial flare in a two-day period. These flares—which are sudden eruptions of bright, arcing radiation—have been preceded by months of increased activity as our star reaches solar maximum (the period of greatest solar activity in the Suns 11-year-long cycle).

These eruptions can wreak havoc on satellites, ground-based communications, and human spaceflight plans, which calls for better methods of predicting their duration and intensity.

Fortunately, a paper published today in Nature takes on that challenge.

Led by physicist Tahar Amari at the Ecole Polytechnique, the paper is the result of several years of research into the events preceding solar flares. Its based on data obtained by the Solar Optical Telescope aboard the Hinode satellite to model a particularly active region of the Sun called NOAA 10930.

The Sun has been fidgety recently

Amari confirmed that flares were preceded by an elongation of sunspots, followed by the emergence of a twisted rope of magnetic flux. These flux ropes are basically kinks in the lines of magnetic fields, and are one of the major forces that power coronal mass ejections, which are like solar flares on steroids.

There are two existing theories for their formation: in the first, the flux rope is shifted out of magnetic equilibrium, and its reconnection to the field powers the eruption. In the second, the flux rope is only formed as a result of a magnetic reconnection.

A coronal mass ejection. Credit: Tahar Amari/Centre de physique thorique. CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique. FRANCE.

The new paper lends support to the first theory, which is good news, because it makes solar flares easier to predict. According to the study, about four days before eruption, the region will begin to accumulate magnetic energy resulting in the formation of a flux rope the day before a mass coronal ejection. If this process is detected in time, it could give everyone on Earth the better part of a week to prepare for the next solar barfathon.

Satellite operators and spaceflight engineers would be able to prepare in the same way they are doing now, but might be able to do it sooner, Amari told me. Some examples include postponing operations which depend on GPS, [and] modifying flight crew schedules and flight trajectories for near-polar flights.

The paper is a promising step towards reading the Suns future moods, and it is especially topical given that the Sun is currently in a particularly manic phase right now. The behavior of the Sun has recently changed and is now in a state not observed for almost 100 years," said physicist Nathan Schwadron, in a statement about his paper, released yesterday, which evaluated Suns effect on human spaceflight.

"While these conditions are not necessarily a showstopper for long-duration missions to the moon, an asteroid, or even Mars, galactic cosmic ray radiation in particular remains a significant and worsening factor that limits mission durations," he said.

Along those lines, Amari and his colleagues hope to anticipate solar activity with even more precision moving forward. Our next research concerns both applying these results to future prediction, and following a coronal mass ejection once it is produced, he said, in particular studying the interaction with the Earth environment.

Thats right, Sun: were on to your games. The next time you try to mess up our spacecraft, well be ready.

Just keeping things up to date

Cyphus Batson.

I had that dream again

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X-men storm as Jem and the Holograms. She rides Tauntaun from Star wars while holding beatrix kiddo’s Hattori Hanzo sword and a pink microphone. and yes. that’s star trek enterprise in the sky.

Makes sense

It’s the ultimate T-shirt my dad would buy

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im really mad at how accurate this is

A moment of silence for our fallen bearded brother who sacrificed himself for the sake of this disgustingly accurate illustration.

Sorting through the claims and counterclaims of Gamergate — the fight between an amorphous collective of male video-game fans and the female developers and critics whom they've harassed — isn't easy. It all began when a young man named Eron Gjoni falsely accused his ex-girlfriend, the indie game developer Zoe Quinn, ... More »

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Warning Signs of Satanic Behavior. Training video for police, 1990

I had that paperback of the Necronomicon, which you could buy at any chain bookstore.

Warning Signs of Satanic Behavior: Being rad.

Astronomy is still fending off charges of blasphemy. These days the opposition comes not from the Vatican, but from a people with very different religious beliefs.

A new study’s findings may explain why Hispanic women have lower rates of breast cancer than other Americans.

The titans in Attack on Titan gross me right out. Their muscles show, their eyes are creepy – I’m not a fan. The titans get even weirder when they’re mashed up with other characters, and I don’t even know what to do with this Homer Simpson titan. Kudos to this cosplayer for combining the two franchises and owning it – I do like that he’s carrying a donut.

Photo by David Ngo.

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Thanks to Buzzfeed — a phrase we type as rarely as possible — we got us some Suavay Presidente stone cold clowning a fool in Chicago before claiming his woman as his own by presidential right.

We miss “Mike,” the fool, telling the Leader of the Free World not to touch his girlfriend, but we DON’T miss the president’s response, which is to needle him for about five hours and then plant one right on Mike’s girlfriend’s kisser. Come at him bro! What you got? You gonna get through the Secret Service? Hmmmm. Don’t answer that.

Before exercising his droit du seigneur, el Prezzy did a fine pissed and bitchy comic patter, imitating Mike’s girlfriend, Aia, telling her friends how mortified she was about her fool boyfriend stepping to the president. Then he laid it on her.

Mike the Fool, having been properly Trumped, was not heard from again, having melted into a puddle of descrotumed shame.

Now do that to Ted Cruz, please. A grateful nation awaits.

[Buzzfeed]

Wow. Just wow.

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The mainstream media finally discovered the Internet's latest subculture of hostile, cynical, easily-led youngsters. Matt Binder on the narcissists, grifters and creeps arriving in its wake. Read the rest

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